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so ere we ready for LBW

perhaps explain wot are extras

and the relationship betwwen stumps, bails and wicket ...


If you think pictures will help take a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/low/english/photo_galleries/newsid_2031000/2031201.stm

Yeah... I was gonna say it was all clear as mud...

You're dealing with someone who barely knows about baseball/softball... and you expect me to understand what in the world bails, wickets and all that stuff is? Then you throw in all this stuff about two batters - at opposite ends of the field? or what?

Thanks for the pics Happy.... sill confused, though...

Opposite ends of the pitch... only one tries to hit the ball at a time though In those pics the stumps are those 3 narrow wooden things, and the bails are the things on top of them. The whole thing, collectively, is called the wicket... but the word 'wicket' has many meanings in cricket, so we'll avoid it for now

Hmmm. I was looking for the remains of a tree.... that's what *we* call a stump. Even got a couple of them in my yard...

Well, they *are* the remains of a tree... after a fashion

in the pics there were three upright wooden sticks behind the batsman - they are the stumps, the bits of wood on top of them are the bails.

Wasn't that what I said?

I related it to the pics I linked to

"In those pics the stumps are those 3 narrow wooden things, and the bails are the things on top of them."

"in the pics there were three upright wooden sticks behind the batsman - they are the stumps, the bits of wood on top of them are the bails."

isnt that wot I said

Exactly

You can take over the explaining now

erm, all yours I'm off out

Well I'm off to bed

Well, I'm glad you settled that while I was out and about....

next lesson?

I do not think we have covered scoring properly yet